GitLab is striving to promote increased awareness of diversity issues. As part of GitLab's efforts to meet this goal, GitLab will sponsor informative, interactive, and reflective events.
The Event must help to further GitLab's values. When considering events to sponsor, the GitLab team values the opportunity to actively participate in the event. When processing applications, the team considers:
In the application please include specific connections/references to GitLab's values.
If you intend to apply, please leave enough lead time (at least 6 weeks, but preferably more) for us to review your application.
Please be aware that GitLab will Sponsor up to 20 events annually. Please submit one application per organization, per calendar year. Due to the number of applications, only approved parties will receive confirmation of sponsorship. To suggest a Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Event for sponsorship please use the Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Sponsorship Request Issue Template.
Why is fostering diversity, inclusion and belonging important?
As if the moral imperative and ethical rationale was not enough, there are also practical advantages to fostering diversity, inclusion and belonging. These events help increase the potential pool of talent to work at GitLab. Research has also proven that more diverse teams are better for business in almost every aspect. (McKinsey, 2023)
After applying for a Event Sponsorship someone from the Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging team will review the issue created by the organiser. They will review if the issue has the correct labels (should have DIB Sponsorship: status: received added by the person who created the issue) and if it has all the necessary information about the event added. The DIB team reviews the DIB issue board every week and will take action accordingly.
If you're hosting an event which doesn't meet the description of an "event which promotes diversity in technology", we'd like to thank you for considering GitLab as your sponsor. Unfortunately, we don't respond to non-diversity requests for sponsoring. Instead, we will identify sponsorship opportunities for such events and reach out ourselves.
You can take a look at the events we sponsor (both that meet the decription of an "event which promotes diversity in technology" and those that don't) on our events page.
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